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The WPIAL has released the 2026 Baseball Championship playoff brackets, including 10 Washington/Greene County teams. Fort Cherry (2A) is the top seed and has a bye to the quarterfinals. First-round action for local teams is slated to begin Monday with 1A, 2A and 4A action, including Avella, Burgettstown, California and Ringgold. We will determine our broadcast schedule shortly. Following is a daily schedule of the WPIAL  Baseball playoffs. WPIAL Baseball Brackets

First Round Bye: 2A #1 Fort Cherry

Monday, May 11–First Round
4:00 pm 2A #8 California vs. #9 Freedom at Joe Maize Field, Peterswood Park
4:00 pm 1A #6 Avella vs. #11 Aquinas Academy at Burkett Complex, Robinson Township
4:00 pm 1A #8 Carmichaels vs. #9 Sewickley Academy at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park
6:30 pm 1A #7 Jeff-Morgan vs. #10 Union at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park
6:30 pm 4A #11 Ringgold vs. #6 Hopewell at Joe Maize Field, Peterswood Park
6:30 pm 2A #12 Burgettstown vs. #5 Laurel at Burkett Complex, Robinson Township

Tusday, May 12–First Round
4:00 pm 3A #9 Charleroi vs. #8 Mt. Pleasant at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park
6:30 pm 3A #16 Waynesburg vs. #1 Avonworth at W&J’s Ross Memorial Park

Monday, May 18–Quarterfinals
4:00 pm 6A #2 Canon-McMillan vs. #7 Seneca Valley at Boyce-Mayview Park, Upper St. Clair

The WPIAL has released the 2026 Softball Championship playoff brackets, including 12 Washington/Greene County teams. Chartiers-Houston (2A) and Carmichaels (1A) are the highest seeded teams from the two-county area. Carmichaels and West Greene (1A) received first-round byes and will be joined in the quarterfinals by Canon-McMillan (6A). First-round action for local teams is slated to begin Tuesday when the #4 Big Macs play #5 Mt. Lebanon and #7 Trinity (5A) takes on #10 Plum. Four Washington County 2A teams will descend on Trinity Middle School Thursday for back to back games. Baseball brackets are due to be released Friday afternoon. We will determine our broadcast schedule once we have those pairings. Following is a daily schedule of the WPIAL Softball playoffs. WPIAL Softball Brackets

First Round Byes: 1A #2 Carmichaels, 1A #3 West Greene

Tuesday, May 12
5A 1st Round #7 Trinity vs. #10 Plum, 5:00 pm at Gateway High School
6A Quarterfinals #4 Canon-McMillan vs. #5 Mt. Lebanon, 6:00 pm at Pleasant Valley Elementary (Peters Township)

Thursday, May 14
3A 1st Round #5 McGuffey vs. #12 Hopewell, 3:00 pm at Montour
3A 1st Round #11 Charleroi vs #6 Burrell, 3:00 pm at Norwin
1A 1st Round #5 Jeff-Morgan vs. #12 Leechburg, 3:00 pm at Gateway
2A 1st Round #3 Bentworth vs. #14 Burgettstown, 4:00 pm at Trinity Middle School
1A 1st Round #11 Beth-Center vs. #6 South Side Area, 4:30 pm at North Strabane Intermediate School
2A 1st Round #2 Chartiers-Houston vs. #15 Wash High, 6:00 pm at Trinity Middle School

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rafael Devers homered to back six strong innings from Robbie Ray, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Friday night. The only run allowed by Ray (3-4) came in the second when Marcell Ozuna led off with his 300th career homer to put Pittsburgh up 1-0. Devers homered for the fourth time this season, connecting against Carmen Mlodzinski (2-3) leading off the bottom half to tie it. It was just the 24th home run for San Francisco this year. Ray walked three straight batters to load the bases with two outs in the third but struck out Oneil Cruz to keep it tied. The left-hander yielded four hits and four walks while striking out seven. Keaton Winn pitched a perfect seventh and Matt Gage worked a scoreless eighth for San Francisco. Caleb Kilian gave up a run in the ninth but retired pinch-hitter Ryan O’Hearn on a groundout with runners on second and third to close it out. Devers singled in the fifth and scored on a two-out single by Heliot Ramos to give the Giants a 2-1 lead. Willy Adames led off the seventh with a single against Justin Lawrence and went to third on Ramos’ double. Drew Gilbert singled to make it 3-1 before Jesús Rodríguez was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Evan Sisk gave up a two-run single to Luis Arraez that made it 5-1. Mlodzinski permitted two runs and seven hits in six innings. Lawrence was charged with three runs and failed to get an out. The Giants began the day with the fewest homers in the majors, the fewest runs (115), and the fewest stolen bases (10).